Talk:List of rail accidents (1960–1969)

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 * February 26, 1960 – Bogantungan, Queensland, Australia. The eastbound Midlander passenger train crashed into the flooded Medway Creek when the bridge collapsed due to damage caused by floods. Seven people die and 43 are injured.
 * March 1, 1960 – Rosedale, California, United States: An Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway passenger train derails after striking a heavy tanker truck carrying a large quantity of crude oil at a grade crossing. The wreckage immediately ignites and 14 people perish in the inferno.
 * August 27, 1961 – Vrbno pod Pradědem, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic): Three freight carriages which ran away during shunting collide with a passenger train. 19 people killed, 17 injured.
 * October 26, 1961 – Two cars of a commuter train run by Oita Traffic Company (Oita Kotsu) are hit by a mudslide after heavy rain at Ōita, eastern Kyūshū, Japan, killing 31 people and injuring another 36. Most of the passengers are senior high school students.
 * January 4, 1963 – An express train rams into rear of standing passenger train, crashing into eight passenger cars which explode and catch fire at Meghnagar, Madhya Pradesh, India. At least 38 people confirmed dead and injuring 90.
 * February 1, 1963 – Double-headed train rams into a passenger train, explodes and catches fire at Nogales, Veracruz, Mexico, killing 17 people and injuring 63.
 * July 13, 1963 – A Surabaya-Kertosono passenger train derails due to switching of rail at Surabaya, Java, Indonesia, killing at least 24 people and injuring 40.
 * August 2, 1963 – A suburban train derails on safety catch point at Piedras, Canelones, Uruguay, killing 40 people and injuring 70.
 * December 24, 1963 – Paládicspuszta, Szolnok, Hungary: A passenger train hits a freight train. 45 killed, 34 injured.
 * January 4, 1964 – A commuter train collided with standing passenger train at Jajinci, Voždovac, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia, killing at least 66 people, and injuring at least 200.
 * March 18, 1964 – Mirigama train crash, Sri Lanka: A Sri Lankan commuter train derails at high speed, killing more than 60 people.
 * July 21, 1964 – Passenger train derailed at Custoias, Portugal, killing 94 people.
 * September 5, 1964 – According to TT news agency report, an eight cars of North Arrow Express derailed at Alby station, near Ånge Sweden, killing 10 people and injuring 40.
 * November 1, 1964 – At Langhagen, East Germany, a steam locomotive with a gravel car ignored a red signal and crashed into a buffer-stop. The first car behind the locomotive, with a weight of 90 tons, was pressed up almost perpendicularly by the force of the impact. At the same time the express train Berlin-Rostock, just having left Langhagen station, passed by, when unfortunately the perpendicularly standing gravel car tilted and bored itself into the fourth car of the express train, killing 44 people and injuring 70.
 * December 17, 1964 – At Dhanuskodi, Southern Tamil Nadu, a passenger train (the No.653 Rameswaram to Dhanuskodi) was fully submerged by sea water due to a heavy storm and tidal waves nearly 20m in height. More than 115 passengers were travelling on this train.
 * February 26, 1965 – A 500-ton freight train head-on collided with a Khartoum – Port Sudan passenger train at Miseiktab, River Nile, Sudan, at least 100 people killed and injuring 29.
 * April 3, 1965 – State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A local passenger train head-on collided with a freight train between in Tres Rio-Barra do Pirai and killing at least 40 people.
 * August 28, 1965 – Pont D'hery, Franche-Comté, France: A Milan-Paris nightly Lombardy Express head-on collided with another passenger train, killing 12 people and injuring 28.
 * September 21, 1965 – Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic): A passenger train collided with a freight train at Hloubětín station. 14 people killed, 70 injured.
 * October 4, 1965 – A commuter local train carrying 850 passenger is derailed at outskirt of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, killing at least 150 people, another 700 are injured.
 * December 18, 1965 – Aldehuela de la Bóveda, Spain: An international passenger train collided with a local passenger train at Villar de los Álamos station. Over 30 people killed, over 60 severely injured.
 * December 29, 1965 – Freight trains from Lehigh Valley Railroad and the Central Railroad of New Jersey crashed in Laurel Run, Pennsylvania.
 * January 7, 1966 – 44 cars of a Delaware and Hudson Railroad freight train derail in the village of Bainbridge, New York. Two people, Anthony and Rose Delello,  are killed when the derailed train and ensuing fire destroyed their home.  Another woman,  Alice Johnson is trapped in her car for hours when one of the derailed cars fell on her vehicle.
 * February 16, 1966 – Passenger train and a train carrying coal collide near Split, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia and burst into flames, killing 33.
 * May 2, 1966 – Deštnice, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic): A train collides with a lorry carrying students. 10 people killed, 37 injured.
 * July 13,1966, Cherryville, North Carolina, Seaboard Air Line trains #45 & #46 hit headon. J.W.Pait, of Hamlet,N.C. killed, and 3 injured. Six locomotives destroyed,GP-9's, 1911, 1927. 1963, 1971, 1979 and F-3 4027.
 * May 21, 1967 – Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh, India: A Bangalore-Cochin express train ploughed into an obstruction on the line, following to crashed, at least 40 killed and 50 injured.
 * May 22, 1967 NYC, NY. Two New York Central Rail Road trains collided head on, causing the deaths of 6, and injuring others on the colliding freight trains.
 * August 10, 1967 – Odense, Denmark: 11 people are killed and 36 injured as a lyntog express train from Copenhagen crashes into a stationary train shortly before Odense.
 * August 25, 1967 – Beesd, Netherlands: The driver and conductor (who in those days was supposed to ride together with the driver in the front cabin) are killed and 7 passengers of a passenger train are injured at 5:55 in the morning, when a cargo train crashes head-on into the first passenger train of that day. The driver of the cargo train (who was injured but survived the crash) missed a red signal, because of dense fog.
 * October 4, 1967 – Fexhe-le-Haut-Clocher, Belgium : 11 people are killed as 3 trains collide.
 * January 31, 1969 – Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea: An express train rammed into a rear of another passenger train and killing 41 people.
 * January 31, 1969 Herend, Hungary: a passenger express train crashed into a military train. Eleven people are killed and 39 injured.
 * February 7, 1969 – Violet Town rail accident, Australia: a head-on collision on a single line, no ATP; 9 people killed
 * March 21, 1969 – Caveiras, Santa Catarina, Brazil: An overcrowded passenger train crashed and broke down and killing fifteen people, another injuring 200.
 * May 1, 1969 – Chomakovtsi, Bulgaria: About 3 am the rear car of overcrowded narrow-gauge night passenger train from Cherven bryag to Oryahovo derails and turns over near Chomakovtsi. The car remains coupled to the train and has been dragged along the track lying on its right side. The passengers fall from the windows and are literally minced between the track and car body. More than hundred meters of the track were covered with blood and parts of human bodies. 29 passengers were killed, 38 severely injured, most of them died afterwards, others remained disabled for life. This is the worst railway accident in the history of Bulgarian Railways.
 * June 21, 1969 – A six passenger cars of express crashed by left a tracks and roared into Magari River and killing 70 people and injuring 130 in Muhammadabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
 * July 28, 1969 – Bezděčín, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic): A passenger train collided with a bus at level crossing, killing 23 people and injuring 29.
 * 1969 - Riverdale, Illinois: an Illinois Central coal train was speeding down the mainline outside of Riverdale, Illinois. Ahead of this coal train was a string of autoracks being pulled by a switcher. Before the crash though, I believe that the coal train became a runaway and slammed into the rear of the autoracks, throwing twelve of them aside before the lead loco came to rest under the thirteenth one. Around 100 coal cars jackknifed into a space of about one city block, a bridge was collapsed in the wreck, the lead unit which was a U-Boat was totally destroyed, the other two locos which were geeps were returned to service. The crew members on the coal train died and were later found under all of the coal that was piled up where the crash initially began.

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Botley train fire
On p. 95 of The Southern Way it is stated that neither can any running numbers be discerned. Examination of shows that few Mark 1 BG were withdrawn before 1980; but four were withdrawn in December 1962: M80907, M80953, E80987, M81521. These were almost certainly involved in the fire; presumably the fifth was repairable. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 21:05, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

May 3, 1962 Mikawashima train incident is a slight bit incorrect.
The commuter train pulled out first, then the freight train derailed. And details of how the 160 people died is not really mentioned in this Wikipedia article. The following however is taken from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/trains-collide-near-tokyo#:~:text=Two%20commuter%20trains%20and%20a%20freight%20train%20collide,at%209%3A30%20p.m.%20taking%20passengers%20out%20of%20Tokyo. But I'm at a loss as to how to modify the original page without pissing people off. So you have the reference... I'll leave it to your guys to make the necessary modifications.

It was Constitution Day in Japan when a commuter train pulled out of Mikawashima station at 9:30 p.m. taking passengers out of Tokyo. Three miles north of the city, a freight train went through a red signal, causing it to jump the track and collide with the commuter train. Most of the passengers survived this first collision.

The survivors then scrambled out of the disabled train and down a 30-foot embankment adjacent to the rails. Minutes later, a second commuter train on the same line, with nine cars, came down the tracks unaware of the crash ahead and plowed into the back of the first commuter train. The collision caused the boiler of the steam locomotive on the freight train to explode; the resulting steam scalded those people still stuck on the train.

To make matters worse, the first commuter train was pushed over and down the embankment right on top of the passengers who had escaped from it minutes earlier. More than 400 people were either killed or required hospitalization. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wbenton (talk • contribs) 10:15, 8 September 2021 (UTC)